Home improvement retailer The Home Depot has introduced Material List Builder AI — a new capability that helps professional renovators, remodelers, builders and specialty tradespeople create project material lists within minutes.

According to a Jan. 26 news release, Material List Builder AI leverages AI technology to interpret a project’s intent and generate an accurate, grouped list of materials needed for the entire job, thus helping pros stay on time and on budget.

Material List Builder AI is designed to streamline the process of creating a product list, which the company notes can take hours of searching for the right SKUs, comparing prices and manually rebuilding lists across spreadsheets or multiple project management platforms.

The new AI tool offers multiple ways for pros to quickly and easily input project details for material list generation, including:

• Using natural language to write up project details;
• Voice-to-text for hands-free input;
• Pasting existing lists from other sources; or
• Using a Materials List Builder AI starter template for common projects

Regardless of input, pros will receive a draft material list organized by each project phase that they can edit before accepting. Once accepted, product recommendations will populate beneath each section, complete with the pro’s preferred pricing and inventory availability. Pros can then select and order what they need to complete the project. Saved material lists will stay within the list builder tool, so pros can quickly pull up a past list and reorder what they need, without starting from scratch each time.

Material List Builder AI is available for free to Pro Xtra members within The Home Depot’s Project Planning tool — a digital platform designed to streamline how pros plan, manage and execute complex projects. The Project Planning tool was first launched in October. You can find the full details of Master List Builder AI here.

Home Depot’s Pro component of its business — which serves as a distributor primarily of contractor supply products — ranks on MDM’s Top Distributor Lists  at No. 6 for Industrial Supplies, No. 4 for MRO, No. 3 for Building Materials and No. 9 for JanSan.)